Sciences of the flesh

representing body and subject in psychoanalysis

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Author

Dianne F. Sadoff

Publication

1998 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California

Language

English

Word Count

85,750 words, Guess

Page Count

343 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL356359M
ISBN-100804730849
OCLC Control Number38580311
Internet Archivesciencesoffleshr0000sado
Library of Congress Control Number98016198

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Goodreads395610

Classifications

DDC150.19/52
LCCBF173 .S254 1998

Description

Deploying Latour's model of scientific theory production, this book argues that the historical emergence of psychoanalysis depended on nineteenth-century scientific practices: laboratory experimentation, medical transmission of research findings along collegial or social networks, and medical representation of illness, including case studies, amphitheatrical demonstration of cases, hospital records of symptoms, and laboratory graphology and photography of patients. Freud used autobiography, summary, and outline to stabilize his concepts and control the dissemination of his new science. Psychoanalysis had successfully created new scientific "plausible bridges" between psyche and soma, nature and the social, to produce a modern theory of hybrid subjectivity that was rooted in, yet conceptually separated from, the body.